130 Quotes by Os Guinness

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    Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

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    For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

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    Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

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    Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

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    ...making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era....

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    Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

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    Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

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    The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

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